Considering it was their opening example (which they reiterated multiple times) I will concede it was a poor choice. Since yes one of the top goals is selling the general idea. So it's fair the general audience would take it at face value, especially when they use it multiple times as a real world use case, it is hard to take it any other way.

Plus the doc is #1 on HN after all, which could IRL push it beyond a proposal stage if done right.